Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judging fighting effectiveness, McNair's manual left little to umpires' whims. For 1941's maneuvers every officer will know what it means when an attack plane slips up on his outfit while it is marching in column. It means 10% casualty, and it should teach him to keep his eyes open and his men dispersed. Officers know that for every minute an infantry outfit lies in the fire of an enemy battery it loses 1%, that every time a tank gets within 100 yards of infantry soldiers they lose 3%. These and all other foreseeable battle contingencies...
Chen Cheng had the good political fortune to graduate in the last class at Paoting and teach the first class at Wham...
...produce 1,000 engines a month, Wright had to start from scratch. While its plant was abuilding, it got the vocational schools of five Ohio towns, including Cincinnati, to set up courses for the specific jobs to be done, and brought out supervisors from its Paterson, N.J. plant to teach them. It also picked up 15 smart young men around Lockland, sent them to Paterson to learn core making. After eight weeks they will return to Lockland to teach others. As it prepares to open its new plant, Wright expects to have most of the skilled men it needs there...
After getting a Leipzig Ph.D., Stone returned to Massachusetts Agricultural College and began to teach a generation of botanists new conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...
...time Johnny Johnson had got on the job, the Air Corps had started revising its whole training scheme. It had given primary training (first ten weeks of its seven-and-a-half-month course) over to 28 civilian schools, detailed a few officers to each to supervise flying and teach cadets how to act like military...